Reply to: Generation Z

[vetran]

Thanks Gals & Guys for the likes & +ve reps. It makes up for her reminding me (repeatedly) she now has more Gcse level qualifications. admittedly mine were 'O' Levels but she has a point.

I have reminded that I expect an exceptional care home when she is paying.

[AtW]

LM Jr got his grades (mostly A-C, he hates Spanish so we don't mention it) and is on the college course that he wants. Happy enough days but he's a bit disappointed.

Ay caramba!

[original PM]

52% of the population are thick.
Interestingly that's exactly the % who are net receivers from the state.
I blame the 80s policy of prioritising a flat for single mums. They bred and their children bred and so on.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_3293846.html

Interestingly enough that was a social experiment to empower women to allow them to have children and also a career to ultimately increase the population despite an increase in reluctance of men to do the right thing and provide for the child.

Mixed results as you see now but it helped make the UK a more equal place.

:-/

[LondonManc]

LM Jr got his grades (mostly A-C, he hates Spanish so we don't mention it) and is on the college course that he wants. Happy enough days but he's a bit disappointed.

[vetran]

7/7

I guessed the Queen.

[vetran]

Miss V turned in 10 A*->C results. She is off to do the A levels she wants. #ProudDad



Must get her brains from Mrs V after all she was intelligent enough to marry me!

The ones where she got less than expected were where her controlled assessments had been centrally moderated last year. A whole load of papers were randomly re-marked by the exam board and dropped 1-2 grades with little explanation. I suspect the drop in results is down to tougher marking centrally than ability.

[bobspud]

52% of the population are thick.
Interestingly that's exactly the % who are net receivers from the state.
I blame the 80s policy of prioritising a flat for single mums. They bred and their children bred and so on.

People Getting Dumber? Human Intelligence Has Declined Since Victorian Era, Research Suggests

No 52% of the population fail badly when they are dragged through a system that is only there to prove how well teachers can drill facts into a child. If we were faster to pull out the practical skilled from those that are good at recollection then we would be far better at skilling people for their lives.

[SueEllen]

New to Toxteth?

Inner city London, Chapeltown, St Pauls,...

No not Thatcher's fault at all....

[LondonManc]

Sorry I thought Thatcher was running the country. If councils were doing wrong then she could or should have stepped in.

New to Toxteth?

[BrilloPad]

Wasn't that local council policy?

Sorry I thought Thatcher was running the country. If councils were doing wrong then she could or should have stepped in.

[OwlHoot]

52% of the population are thick.
Interestingly that's exactly the % who are net receivers from the state.
I blame the 80s policy of prioritising a flat for single mums. They bred and their children bred and so on.

By "thick" do you mean stupid or foolish? There is a big difference.

Educated Bremainers may not be stupid, but arguably time will confirm that they were foolish and in retrospect the Brexiters were the opposite

[CretinWatcher]

So Thatcher then....

Wasn't that local council policy?

[BrilloPad]

I blame the 80s policy of prioritising a flat for single mums.

So Thatcher then....

[OwlHoot]

6/7, but vexingly I slipped up on the first question.

The French one was piss-easy. One could guess the gist of the following, enough to deduce the quesstion answer, solely by the similarity of the words without ever having learned a word of French:

"Pour réduire le nombre d’accidents dans le centre-ville, le conseil municipal propose d’agrandir la zone piétonne."

[ClothCap]

Maybe they could split them into 2 tiers? Give the better ones something like a GCE and the others, I dunno, maybe CSE.